High-latitude ocean and sea ice surface fluxes: requirements and challenges for climate research
Improving knowledge of air-sea exchanges of heat, momentum, fresh water, and gases is critical to understanding climate, and this is particularly true in high-latitude regions, where anthropogenic climate change is predicted to be exceptionally rapid. However, observations of these fluxes are extrem...
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ftfloridastunidc:oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_209868 2023-05-15T14:04:18+02:00 High-latitude ocean and sea ice surface fluxes: requirements and challenges for climate research Bourassa, Mark (authoraut) Gille, Sarah Tragler (authoraut) Bitz, Cecilia M. (authoraut) Carlson, David (authoraut) Cerovecki, Ivana (authoraut) Cronin, Meghan (authoraut) Drennan, Will (authoraut) Fairall, Chris (authoraut) Hoffman, Ross (authoraut) Magusdottir, Gudrun (authoraut) Pinker, Rachel (authoraut) Renfrew, Ian (authoraut) Serreze, Mark C. (authoraut) Speer, Kevin G. (Kevin George) (authoraut) Talley, Lynne D. (authoraut) Wick, Gary (authoraut) 1 online resource computer application/pdf http://www-pord.ucsd.edu/~sgille/highlat/hilatr_manuscript_v29s.pdf http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_coaps_pubs-0017 http://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu%3A209868/datastream/TN/view/High-latitude%20ocean%20and%20sea%20ice%20surface%20fluxes.jpg English eng eng Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Atmospheric sciences Meteorology Oceanography Text ftfloridastunidc 2020-08-10T18:25:01Z Improving knowledge of air-sea exchanges of heat, momentum, fresh water, and gases is critical to understanding climate, and this is particularly true in high-latitude regions, where anthropogenic climate change is predicted to be exceptionally rapid. However, observations of these fluxes are extremely scarce in the Arctic, the Southern Ocean, and the Antarctic marginal seas. High winds, high sea state, extreme cold temperatures, seasonal sea ice, and the remoteness of the regions all conspire to make observations difficult to obtain. Annually averaged heat-flux climatologies can differ by more than their means, and in many cases there is no clear consensus about which flux products are most reliable. Although specific flux accuracy requirements for climate research vary depending on the application, in general fluxes would better represent high-latitude processes if wind stresses achieved 0.01Nm-2 accuracy at high wind speed and if heat fluxes achieved 10 W m-2 accuracy (averaged over several days) with 25 km grid spacing. Improvements in flux estimates will require a combination of efforts, including a concerted plan to make better use of ships of opportunity to collect meteorological data, targeted efforts to deploy a few flux moorings in high-wind regions, and improved satellite retrievals of flux-related variables. flux, white, climate, Arctic, Antarctic Submitted to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Pre-publication version accessible at http://www-pord.ucsd.edu/~sgille/highlat/hilatr_manuscript_v29s.pdf Bourassa, Mark; Gille, Sarah; Bitz, Cecilia; Carlson, David; Cerovecki, Ivana; Cronin, Meghan; Drennan, Will; Fairall, Chris; Hoffman, Ross; Magusdottir, Gudrun; Pinker, Rachel; Renfrew, Ian; Serreze, Mark; Speer, Kevin; Talley, Lynne; and Wick, Gary, "High-latitude ocean and sea ice surface fluxes: requirements and challenges for climate research" (2012). Submitted to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Text Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Climate change Sea ice Southern Ocean Florida State University Digital Library (FSUDL) Arctic Antarctic Southern Ocean The Antarctic |
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Improving knowledge of air-sea exchanges of heat, momentum, fresh water, and gases is critical to understanding climate, and this is particularly true in high-latitude regions, where anthropogenic climate change is predicted to be exceptionally rapid. However, observations of these fluxes are extremely scarce in the Arctic, the Southern Ocean, and the Antarctic marginal seas. High winds, high sea state, extreme cold temperatures, seasonal sea ice, and the remoteness of the regions all conspire to make observations difficult to obtain. Annually averaged heat-flux climatologies can differ by more than their means, and in many cases there is no clear consensus about which flux products are most reliable. Although specific flux accuracy requirements for climate research vary depending on the application, in general fluxes would better represent high-latitude processes if wind stresses achieved 0.01Nm-2 accuracy at high wind speed and if heat fluxes achieved 10 W m-2 accuracy (averaged over several days) with 25 km grid spacing. Improvements in flux estimates will require a combination of efforts, including a concerted plan to make better use of ships of opportunity to collect meteorological data, targeted efforts to deploy a few flux moorings in high-wind regions, and improved satellite retrievals of flux-related variables. flux, white, climate, Arctic, Antarctic Submitted to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Pre-publication version accessible at http://www-pord.ucsd.edu/~sgille/highlat/hilatr_manuscript_v29s.pdf Bourassa, Mark; Gille, Sarah; Bitz, Cecilia; Carlson, David; Cerovecki, Ivana; Cronin, Meghan; Drennan, Will; Fairall, Chris; Hoffman, Ross; Magusdottir, Gudrun; Pinker, Rachel; Renfrew, Ian; Serreze, Mark; Speer, Kevin; Talley, Lynne; and Wick, Gary, "High-latitude ocean and sea ice surface fluxes: requirements and challenges for climate research" (2012). Submitted to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. |
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Bourassa, Mark (authoraut) Gille, Sarah Tragler (authoraut) Bitz, Cecilia M. (authoraut) Carlson, David (authoraut) Cerovecki, Ivana (authoraut) Cronin, Meghan (authoraut) Drennan, Will (authoraut) Fairall, Chris (authoraut) Hoffman, Ross (authoraut) Magusdottir, Gudrun (authoraut) Pinker, Rachel (authoraut) Renfrew, Ian (authoraut) Serreze, Mark C. (authoraut) Speer, Kevin G. (Kevin George) (authoraut) Talley, Lynne D. (authoraut) Wick, Gary (authoraut) |
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